#corrupt

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. ↗

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#arab #better #chickens #corruption #down

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#away #bombs #call #corrupt #culture

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#debt #disease #fatal #first #first thing

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#bodies #contain #corrupted #elements #greater

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#corruption #countries #elites #framework #operate

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#i #intimidate #intimidated #masses #never

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cynics #equally #everybody #except #idealists

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#come #communism #corruption #country #disrupted

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots. ↗